Hear your rights from top lawyer Mathieu Culverhouse Solicitor !

Come and Meet at the Office’s Of Manchester Users Network one of the countries leading mental health solicitors Mathieu Culverhouse an associate member ofIrwin Mitchell Solicitors:

“What the media are say about Mathieu Culverhouse of Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, a supporting advertisers with the MUNReporter”

“He is a safe pair of hands. He goes the extra mile for the client.” – Chambers & Partners 2014

“calm and efficient.” – Legal 500, 2013

“An obvious rising star.” and “He has a very good knowledge of the issues and was very helpful in guiding us to where our interventions could have value.” –Chambers & Partners 2013

On Wednesday 2nd April 2014 Manchester Users Network have the pleasure of hosting a questions and answers session to help services users to better understand the laws that surround and govern mental health in England.

If you would like to attend this meeting please come along on the day to the Offices of Manchester Users Network at 1:45pm on Wednesday 2nd April, 2014 to meet with Mathieu Culverhouse; who acts for the Official Solicitor, Independent Mental Capacity Advocates (‘IMCAs’) and for the families of vulnerable adults in cases in the Court of Protection under the Mental Capacity Act relating to their mental capacity, deprivation of liberty, health and welfare. He is a founder and national committee member of the Court of Protection Practitioners Association (‘CoPPA’) and within Irwin Mitchell he leads the public law department’s Court of Protection special interest group.

You can contact Mathieu at Irwin Mitchell Tel. 0870 1500 100

Fax. 0161 839 9804

Address of Manchester Users Network:-

Our office is based in Park house (North Manchester general hospital)

Office Telephone: 0161 918 4343

Post Code for Sat NavM8 5RB

Our Aims: To support users and ex-users of psychiatric services in Manchester and provide a forum for users to have a bona fide say in planning and provision of mental health services.

Our Aims: About Us

To support users and ex-users of psychiatric services in the Manchester area. The organisation provides a forum for services users to have a bona fide say in planning and provision of mental health services.

Protesters in King’s Lynn fight against mental health service cuts

Protesters took to the streets of King’s Lynn to voice their anger at what they described as “continuous” cutbacks to mental health services in west Norfolk.

Mental health cuts protest

A protest march against cuts to mental health services and the Fermoy Unit at the QEH took place in King's Lynn town centre. Picture: Matthew Usher.

More than 100 campaigners marched from The Walks through the town centre before finishing outside the Majestic Cinema.

Peter Smith, former parliamentary candidate for south-west Norfolk said: “We are in the fight of our lives here.”

The protest was triggered by the Fermoy Unit, an in-patient NHS facility in Lynn for mental health, which campaigners say faces an uncertain future. The unit was briefly closed to new admissions earlier this month, but reopened last week, albeit with fewer beds.

Mr Smith said: “In my lifetime we have never had to fight like this, but what is the alternative?”

But Debbie White, director of operations for Norfolk at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, said there were now no plans to axe the Fermoy Unit.

She added: “It is right that mental health services should be valued and funded on the same level as acute health services, and it is understandable people feel passionate about the Fermoy Unit remaining open.”

Labour party activist Jo Rust insisted the issue would not disappear. She said: “They have been talking about closing it for a long time. We will fight and we will not let them do that.”

Beth Anthony, 18 of Dersingham, said: “We are here to protest against the continuous cuts to the mental health service, we think it’s unacceptable. My younger brother suffers from poor mental health and has to travel to London... That is to the detriment of my family because we have to pay for him to go down by train every single month.”